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Poetry: Get Off the Track

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
July
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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An antislavery adaptation of a blackface minstrelsy song, “Old Dan Tucker,” made popular by the reform-minded Hutchinson Family Singers. Sung at the June 1845 Southern and Western Liberty Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. For adaptations of the same tune as campaign songs for Henry Clay, see "The Moon Was Shining Silver Bright" and “Clay and Freylinghuysen.”

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The fullowing Liberty Song, was sung at the Cincinnnti Convention, by tlie choir of colorcd childrcri, and received witb great applause: GET OFF TflE TRACK, Am- liDiin ' Tvcker.'1 Ho! the car Emnncipation Kide? mnjpslic throogh our natiorr, Hearing on iis tmin the story, Liberty! a nation's glory. Roll it n!ng throngrh the nntiofy Fieedom's car, Rmancipalion. Men of vnrious predüectionF, Frightened, run in all dñectiune,' Mcrcliaiits, editors, phypjcinns, Jnwyere, prie8t6, oh1 poiticionp. (Jet out of the wajr! evfi'ry stution! Clcar Ihe track ot 'moncipation! Let the mitiistem and chnrrlirs Leave beliind seciarian hirches - Jnmp ou board ihe c;ir of Freedom, Ure it be Jou la e (o need ihni. Sound thcalurni! Piflpits tiui'öeri Ere too lateyou see your b)under! n' gnzed, nstonudcd, Wlien, nt first, onrbell reso'indel; Fr-ight trains !irec"m'niL, teil tlicse fo.te?, With our polrg nnd ballot boree. Juinp fr your liveí pol;ticñnc, Fiom yonr dangerous, laUe posilion?. Rnilrrads to Enmncipntion Cunnot rest on Chtif foundation And tl} rond tliat Polk erects us, Leods toslavery nnd to Texas! Pull npthe raus! iJtmincJpntion Cannot rest on such foundation. A) trtie friend.s of Plmnnoipatinn, iliüteto Freeriom's nitlrond sttion; Quick ir.to tlternrs irpt sfalejif, AU is re.ïdy nnd roniplt-ted. Put on the steiuni nllare crying-, And the liberty flags nre flying. On, triumpliant see them hearing, Througli íectarian rubb'sh tparins: The bril nnd whistle ant' the sieaming, Startle thotiíands from their drenming. - I.ook out lor ihecars while theb4ll unas Ere the oouniJ your funeral knell rings. See the peoplo run to moet n?, At the dt-poto thoiifnndi greet ue- All inltp spnts with oxultation, in the car Etnanriootion. Iluzza! Hnzzaü Ernancipotion Soon will blees onr happy natiotl. Utizzn! Hiizzaü HnzzaÜ!